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loufe • today at 4:07 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I am astounded by the activity in this repo... what is going on? 508 PRs on 408 commits..? It's getting additions at a frenetic pace by a large number of contributors.


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AnotherGoodName • today at 4:25 AM

It’s unintentionally making a mockery of OpenAIs results by highlighting Blums speedup theorem in action. Namely that you can always reduce time complexity with a small move into space complexity.

That unintentional mockery of a repo is 262million lines of such moves and growing. I don’t think for a second anyone involved has a clue about complexity theory though or they’d just jump to the obvious “O(1) time complexity using an O(2^n) lookup table to cover all possible n bits of input” which is the final end state of Blums speedup theorem.